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Re: bash: get file modification time query



* David selby (debian@pusspaws.net) [030709 12:08]:
> Is there a neater way to get a modification date for a file without ls 
> -l & sed ? I have a bash script that needs to get the info. Because the 
> file size varies I cannot use cut, it may cut the wrong bit.

stat -c "%y" $filename

good times,
Vineet
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